As usual, our show was stacked full of innovative, creative, extraordinary new music - mostly by artists and bands who struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts. This was the final time that we produced a show as a playlist with no intros.
Playlist:
Amber – Maria BC

Devices – Kaidi Akinnibi

Babel – Marina Herlop

Only Nineteen – Caleb Francis

The Tower – Future Islands

Sleeper – BADBADNOTGOOD, Charlotte Day Wilson

Switch It On, Switch It Off – Chartreuse

Lords – Barbarism

Backtrack – Ruby J

Clarity – PRIM

Moons Melt Milk Light – Anenon

Sucker – Ian Sweet

Seraglio – UNA

Dark Corner - Omyügen

paracetamol – SJD

Imagine What Could Happen (Hollow Comet remix) – Dari Bay, Hollow Comet

Montagnard People – Katie Von Schleicher

Premonition – Kudu Joy

Alien – Rangleklods
Glorious – Tony Njoku

I Care – Fabiana Palladino, Jai Paul

Fringe – pen pin

Machine – Phoebe Coco

B.I.A. – Moonlight Eclipse

Melting – Arctic Lights

GWACTER – Sybs

Rapture – Jackson Wagner

Circula – Alex Seel

Songs I’ll Never Sing – Paula O’Reilly

Hoso Michi – foodman

nap – Sipper

worlds greatest emoter – bar italia

Голод- MOHOHOKE

Face – Gabby’s World

All The Times (The KVB remix) – gae vinci, The KVB 

Another great show stacked full of innovative, creative, extraordinary new music - mostly by artists and bands who struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts. At this time, we were producing the show as a playlist with no intros - that changed soon after this one.
Playlist:
Passenger – Will Epstein

witches’ brew – Luna Shadows

Time Lost – New Age Doom, Tuvaband

Calibrate – Slowe

Minerals – Illuminine, Shellter

Animals – August Gilde

Long For Light – Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening

Juniper – Andrea von Kampen

The Truth (Acoustic) – Moonchild

Silvre – World Had A Plan

Western Station – Regena Hoye

brightest – Mica Sinclair

Lose Control – Safar (FR), TOSZ

Just Shy of Why – Wuzy Bambussy, Kat Harrison

People Pleaser – Marianna Winter

Turning Time – Evie Asio

Faraway – Belau, Hien

Awaria – PRZESTRZENIE

Over You – Lady Hayes

Inner Voices – Justin Walter

Gray – Scott Orr

Night looping – Colleen

Magic – Kat Milk Blu

Naughty Little Love – Yellow Light Hansa

Feathers – Belle Mt.

What I Wouldn’t Do – Elizabeth Liddle

The Angel – Northern System

By The Lake – Oister Boy

Recently - grassmell

Justice and The Thief - Hippy 

Another great show stacked full of innovative, creative, extraordinary new music - mostly by artists and bands who struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts.
Playlist:
Lanterns Lit (Among The Living) – Son Lux

Right or Wrong (Moortega! Remix) – Camp Claude, Diane Sagnier

Holy Mountain – Grandamme

A Barely Lit Path – Oneohtrix Point Never

Sibomandi – Alabaster DePlume, Falle Nioke

All The Way – Mighty Glad

Dust Bowl – Black Heart Drifters

Admeta Harmony – Dawda Jobarteh, Jens Christian ‘Chappe’ Jensen, Admeta String Quartet

Go Easy, Kid – Monica Martin

How Do You Leave (Billie Martin & Ellie Mason Re-edit) – Bess Atwell, Voka Gentle, Ellie Mason, Billie Martin

Dulce Puella – PeTer FRYD

Rainbows and Dreams – George FitzGerald, SOAK

Pyromid – Niilas, Erlend Apneseth

Love Fight – King’s Division

call me up sunshine - Oddnesse

Selfish Soul (ODESZA Remix) – Sudan Archives, ODESZA

Weaver’s Beam – David Eugene Edwards

basis (Kinnship remix) – Lara Somogyi, Kinnship

There Was A Hope – Smoke Fairies

Dopehead – VELOUR FOG

Aggression Level: Medium – Norwegian Soft Kitten

Love Sabbatical – Zeeland, Nana Adjoa

The Transformation of Acceptance – The Irrepressibles

Våg - Geir Sundstøl

Landkjenning – Maridalen

14 Days – Simon Morley

Deep in the wild wood – SYREL

To The River – Dorsten

Shut Them Down – Sinful Maggie

Eruption - AUDREZ

More innovative, creative, extraordinary new music in this week's episode - mostly by artists and bands who struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts. Playlist:
A Closer Touch - AVR 
Animals – The Bones of J.R. Jones 
Rag Child – Allison Russell 
More Than A Love Song – Black Pumas 
Perfect Heaven – 15 15 
shanty – Slowdive 
Can’t escape from the sun – The Burning Feathers 
Kakariki Avenue – Neon Gru 
Respirar – Grace Aneglique, Jordan LaFaver 
Flutestargate - Carlos Niño & Friends 
Lovesong – Kin Leonn 
Other Doors – Soft Machine 
Pumpkin – Reincarnated – Tricky, Lucia 
My Noise Is Nothing – Lord Of The Isles, Ellen Renton 
Kulu – N’Gou Bagayoko 
Wolf Moon – Daniel Land 
Matte Grey Wrap - CASISDEAD 
In Electric Time – Jeremiah Chiu 
Mole In The Ground – John Francis Flynn 
Summer – Francesca Guerra 
Desert Song - säje 
Temperate red – Get The Blessing 
Inti Watana – El Retorno del Sol – Luzmila Carpio 
Magic Wand - Ezul 
Literally Everything – Brimheim 
Cabaret – Peach Panic 
borealis dancing – jaimie branch 
Humanz are Bastardz – John E Vistic

More innovative, creative, extraordinary new music in this week's episode - mostly by artists and bands who struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts:
Crocodile – Uma
Swedish Water – Chartreuse
Café Godot – Stefano Mastonardi
Holy Dazed. (radio edit) - TANGO GOLF TANGO
Colour Code – Breakfast Cat
There Is No End – New Age Doom
Apples For My Love – Praises
Marriage – The Bug Club
Hurt People Hurt People – Broken Bear
The Turning Ground – Tara Clerkin Trio
Lucid Dreaming – emzae
Echo In The Chamber – Say She She
Lost When I’m Around You – Sans Soucis
Mother Tongue – Silver Moth
i only hear you in my song – la loye
The Mirror – Samantha Whates
With the Wind – Ida Wenøe
Mountains – Gotts Street Park, ENNY
reason – Omah Lay
Mama – Maher Cissoko
Love Can Heal – Peter Gabriel (Bright Side mix)
Alligator – Gia Ford
Ultraviolet Ray – UFOm
Ring-a-Ling – Tiffani Vinyard
It must have been the sound – Sound on High
My Intent – Lucy Bullock
Gymnopédie – Tapir!
Am I Human? – LIA LIA

More innovative, creative, extraordinary new music in this week's episode - mostly by artists and bands that struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio and podcasts:

Sugar – Yellow Belly

A Little Bit Of Love – Duo Decad

I Say Not As I – Palm Skin Productions

Tanzania – Turtle

Bringing Murder to the Land – Anton Newcombe, Dot Allison

Shark – Sharky

Gone – So Below

Logika - Thee Marloes

Head Down – Steven Bamidele

Fallen Air – Ruby Haunt

Crocodiles – Dead Anyway

Dove – Tash Sultana

Lazy Days – STR4TA, Wallace, Emma-Jean Thackray

Close To The Clouds – Art School Girlfriend

Future Lover - Daughter

Empty Drive – The Self Help Group

Stupid Words – Bellza

All the Rains – John Fahey

Elle – Mari Boine, Bugge Wesseltoft

The Secret History – Anyone’s Ghost

Icon – Song 1 – Jen Lush

Luna Star – Alex Seel

Year of Love – Jenny Hval

137 Pages – Repulsive Woman

Snakelife – Allison Russell

Blue V2 – Wildflowers

Breathe – SHKHR, Asch-Rose

Muddy Funster – DJ Koze, Kurt Wagner 

We're back!

It's been just over 2 years since we last broadcast our show. It will be a different show now - just a playlist of wonderful new music that has been sent in to us. That and a few new releases by well known artists to us - maybe not so well known to our listeners.

It's wall to wall gorgeousness - beautiful, innovative, stunning new music that just doesn't get heard on big commercial and public broadcasting radio.

Playlist:
Oh Mother – Kan Wakan, Jessica Childress

Playgod – Poppy Ajudha

Make Your Heart Beat – The Dying Seconds

Nsera – Fatoumata Diawara, Damon Albarn

Lagmami – Electric Jalaba

D 4 N – laura Groves, Sampha

Art for Art’s Sake – FiFi Rong

This Foolish Heart Could Love You (The Paris Sessions) – Melody Gardot, Philippe Powell

You Got Me – Tora Woloshin

Bang On The Gong – Twin Atlantic

Feelings Agency – Spirits of Saturn

Grace – Iris Lune

Green Book – Ghostly Kisses

Pick Up! – Ian Simmonds

Don’t Rush It – The Breath
Old Note – Lisa O’Neill

for the both of us – Ego Ella May

I Wish – Debra Buesking

Desiderium – Classical Glass

You Are (Live) – Ny Oh

Every Stranger – Jessie Reid

No Crimes (New History) – Son Lux, Jordan Munson, Isaiah Robinson

Plain Boring Disaster – Madeline Kenney

Gem Of the Ocean – Aves, JFDR

Boyhood – The Japanese House

What You Don’t See – Saint Martyn

Tell Him – Moonchild, Lala Hathaway

Meet Me On The Lake – emma miller

Ghosts in the Autumn Sky – The Evolving 9th Hour 

The FINAL episode of the After Eight Show for radio. But don't despair - we will be making the occasional podcast in the future with, as before, an eclectic mix of new music that you just don't hear anywhere else!

This week's show was a 'Best of the Best of the Best' compilation - some favourite tracks from more than 8000 we've played since the first episode in January 2014. And the VERY final track, still one of our all time favourites, will be the same track that we opened our very first show with. It's a track by Lamb that will send shivers down your spine!

It's wall to wall gorgeousness - beautiful, innovative, stunning new music that just doesn't get heard on big commercial and public broadcasting radio.

Lineup:
Still – The Japanese House

Off the Shelf – little hurricane

I Used To – Oddnesse

Lunette  – Made In Heights

Alkali Lake – Bird Watcher, Alfonso Belloso

Appointments – Julien Baker

Prism – Submotion Orchestra

Captivate – Midst

Taken Away – Moodymann

Let The Cards Fall – The Breath

Moonlight (Live) - Neon Gru

Southern Winds – Guillemots

Wasteland – Emma Miller

Weird Fishes – Lianne La Havas

Sparkle – aYia

Edca – Eyre Llew

I Will Follow You (Cotton Socks mix) – Beauty In Chaos, Evi Vine

Always – Cosmo – Selah Sue

In the Morning (The Battersea Sessions) – Eliza Shaddad

Groceries – Gia Margaret

He Was In His Bubble – Tuvaband

Condition White (Bare Island remix) – Yellow Belly, Bare Island

Merge – Nic Evennett

Gabriel - Lamb

*** BEST OF 2021! ***

This episode comprises some of our favourite tracks selected from more than a thousand that we have played during the year.

It's wall to wall gorgeousness - beautiful, innovative, stunning new music that just doesn't get heard on big commercial and public broadcasting radio. With the exception of a short intro and outro, it is uninterrupted music.

Playlist:
Liquidity – Gyða Valtýsdóttir, Kjartan Sveinsson

Click Click Domino – Ida Mae, Marcus King

Prisencolinensinainciusol – Marianne Dissard

Robber – The Weather Station

3017 – Lexxy

Torch Song – Lucinda Chua

The Lovely Divers – Dead Anyway

Keep Checking Up On Me – Chartreuse

Movement 1 – Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra

Shame - Örvar Smárason, Sin Fang, Sóley

Mogoya - Oumou Sangaré

Ecouché – Amai Kuda Et Les Bois

Nervous – Penelope Trappes

Condition White (Bare Island remix) – Yellow Belly, Bare Island

Doctor Frazer Mcglinchey – Out of the Ordinary – Edinburgh, Joseph Malik

Scratchcard Lanyard – Dry Cleaning

In the Morning (The Battersea Sessions) – Eliza Shaddad

Love Dancer – Hemai, FiFi Robo

damn – Ada Lea

LTWYLM – Abi Ocia

Stories – Sarah Neufeld

Merge – Nic Evennett

Moonlight – Neon Gru

Oliver – Gal Musette

Put My Bones into the Ground – Mark Remmington

Dream My Life Away – Tash Sultana, Josh Cashman

This week's show was a 'BEST OF THE BEST' compilation - our favourite two tracks from each of the last ten shows. It's wall to wall gorgeousness - beautiful new music that just doesn't get heard on big commercial and public broadcasting radio.

New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else!

Playlist:
Bad with time – Sun June

Meet Ya – Full Flower Moon Band

Oliver – Gal Musette

Something / Anything – Zach James Douglas

damn – Ada Lea

“Quotations” – Water From Your Eyes

In the Morning (The Battersea Sessions) – Eliza Shaddad

Watching The Beams – Chorusing

LTWYLM – Abi Ocia

Move Right Through Me (Slowly remix) – Anushka, Slowly

Get My Bearings – Joan As Police Woman, Tony Allen, Dave Okumu, Damon Albarn

Change – Tusks

Blackbirds – Ghostly Kisses

Heavenly (A Real Birds remix) – Cold Heaven

Soar – Indi Faulkner

Flowers by the Roadside – Whitney Tai, Michael Trainor

The Wounded Wolf – Eberson

Merge – Nic Evennett

Vacancy (No One Near) – Son Lux, lojii

Whole Heart – Jessie Reid

Caring – Mathias Eick

Cosmic Dust – Kasia Konstance

Julia – Gal Musette

Grow (Submotion Orchestra remix) – Kidnap, Leo Stannard, Submotion Orchestra